Our Place
Locations & Directions
Salmon River Adventure Company base camp is located at 1276 Salmon River Rd, in North Fork, Idaho.
This location is 35 miles north of Salmon, ID. From the town of Salmon, follow US-93 north for 21 miles, then turn left on NF-30/Salmon River Rd. The road will parallel the river for 13 miles before arriving at camp on the left side of the road.
Nearest Airports:
- Missoula, MT – 3.0 hrs
- Idaho Falls – 3.5 hrs
OUR Place
SRAC is situated on 19 acres of river front property surrounded by the 4.2 million acre Salmon-Challis National Forest. This is the perfect destination for a superior whitewater experience. The Salmon River is one of the most idyllic in the United States. Known as “The River of No Return,” the Salmon originates in the mountains above the Sawtooth Valley. It then flows North through central Idaho, before turning sharply West at the town of North Fork.
The Salmon River flows through the vast Frank Church Wilderness and is the second deepest gorge on the American continent. It is renowned for its whitewater, history, scenic beauty, and white sandy beaches. It is one of the longest free-flowing rivers in the continental United States, thus it received the Wild and Scenic designation.
Salmon River Adventure Company is located 12.5 miles west of the small town of North Fork, and 34 miles from the nearest city of Salmon, Idaho (population 3,096).
History of the Camp
The kayak program that Salmon River High Adventure Base adopted began on the upper reaches of the Snake River in 1966. For several summers, participants would be guided down the well-traveled and familiar rapids of the Snake River. It wasn’t until a suggestion from Walt Blackadar, a Salmon doctor and kayaking legend, that the staff packed up their boats and made the long drive to Lemhi County. After their first run down the Salmon, personally guided by Walt, the staff realized what thousands of Scouts have since learned: the famous “River of No Return” offers a superior whitewater experience.
For many years, the Salmon River high adventure program operated out of the Spring Creek area. But the search was on for a new facility from which to run. In 1986, Teton Peaks Council acquired 19 prime acres of river-fronted property from Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Grover of Salmon, Idaho. Facilities were constructed, and the base saw its first use the next summer. It has since hosted thousands Scouts, each coming away with a Salmon River experience that cannot be found anywhere else.
access (equipment and licenses not available at SRAC)
- Large Grassy Meadow at Salmon River’s edge (group activity space)
About the Salmon River
Wild & Scenic Designation: In recognition of the river’s many outstanding values, including scenery, recreation, geology, fish, wildlife, water quality, botany, prehistory, history and cultural traditional use, Congress designated 46 miles of the river, from North Fork to Corn Creek, as a recreational river and 79 miles, from Corn Creek to Long Tom Bar, as a wild river.
River of No Return
Known as “The River of No Return,” the Salmon River originates in the Sawtooth and Lemhi Valleys of central and eastern Idaho; snows from the Sawtooth and Salmon River Mountains in the south and the Clearwater and Bitterroot Mountains in the north feed this river. The upper section passes through the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, while the lower section forms the southern boundary of the Gospel-Hump Wilderness.
